An Argentine Journalist on Fallout from Prosecutor’s Mysterious Death
The plot unfolded like a murder mystery.
First, on January 18, Argentine state prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead from a gunshot wound. The timing was uncanny: Nisman had just written a 289-page report accusing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her foreign minister of covering up a deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. He had been planning to deliver the testimony the following day. Initially, the death was chalked up to suicide. But a few days later, the president said she believed Nisman had been murdered as part of a plot to discredit her. And this week, it came out that a draft of a request for Kirchner's arrest was found in Nisman's house.
To understand the context and ramifications of these dramatic events, Moment spoke with Javier Sinay, an Argentinian journalist who writes for Rolling Stone...